GE has released its latest Industrial Internet solution, the MDSTM Orbit MCR-4G, designed to help owners of private communication networks, such as utilities, oil and gas companies and energy-intensive industries leverage public cellular networks to securely communicate with field crews and industrial equipment and reduce the cost and time associated with maintaining their infrastructure.

Designed for industrial infrastructure companies that rely on private mission-critical communications networks, the MCR-4G is an industrial router that they can use to take advantage of public cellular infrastructure to bring valuable asset and operational information such as equipment pressures and temperatures or well production data, from the field to their operations centers.

It also allows field crews to access data on their corporate network that has traditionally only been available in the office. For oil and gas customers this can mean that well servicers can use the WiFi hotspot at a well to access the corporate network to get their next work order, eliminating the need for them to drive back to the office to get their next assignment.

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